{"id":174,"date":"2011-01-13T23:24:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T15:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/?p=174"},"modified":"2011-01-13T23:24:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T15:24:41","slug":"stonehenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/stonehenge","title":{"rendered":"Stonehenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve always wanted to see the Stonehenge<\/a> in person, so I had to make a trip down when I was holidaying in the UK last year. Booked a day tour of Stonehenge, Salisbury Cathedral and Bath (more about them in a later blog post), and after about a 3-hour journey, I arrived.<\/p>\n

After walking from the coach park, ticket counter and a tunnel with some murals depicting the history of stonehenge, the structure finally loomed in front of me, and I got to say the first impression is kind of underwhelming. They turned out to be not as huge as I had expected. Furthermore, it’s fenced off and visitors are quite a distance from them. Apparently they did this after countless tourists started chipping off the stones as souvenirs, so they had to be kept off the stones.<\/p>\n

The weather that day was good, especially after several typically grey days I have in London. I took a more or less standard shot of it, which didn’t turn out fantastic. And it looks rather like one of the Windows XP wallpapers too.<\/p>\n

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Stonehenge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As I walked around the monument, I noticed that the sky and clouds was rather pretty. So I did another shot with more emphasis on the sky\/clouds and I liked it much better. No polariser is used here, by the way.<\/p>\n

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Stonehenge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I also took the same shot on my iPhone 4, which turned out pretty good. It’s now my iPhone wallpaper too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve always wanted to see the Stonehenge in person, so I had to make a trip down when I was holidaying in the UK last year. Booked a day tour of Stonehenge, Salisbury Cathedral and Bath (more about them in a later blog post), and after about a 3-hour journey, I arrived. After walking from… Continue reading Stonehenge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[29,80,79,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}